Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Google Calendar RAT is a PoC of Command&Control (C2) over Google Calendar Events, it was developed red teaming activities. “To use GRC, only a Gmail account is required.” “The script creates a ‘Covert Channel’ by exploiting the event descriptions in Google Calendar.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 28, 2022

Lynch as chief accounting officer and Andrew F. Peter Fletcher has been appointed vice president – information security officer of San Jose Water Co., Lynch has an extensive accounting and auditing background, with a 26-year career at KPMG LLP that included responsibilities as an audit partner. About SJW Group.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2020

Nintendo has disconnected the NNID legacy login system from main Nintendo profiles after it has discovered a massive account hijacking campaign. The gaming giant Nintendo announced that hackers gained accessed at least 160,000 user accounts as part of an account hijacking campaign since early April. ” reported ZDNet.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

At the time of discovery, the data store contained 226 million logged events, resulting in 1.2 The leaked information also had employee names and emails. Those logs were mainly attributable to cybersecurity software such as Extended Detection and Response (XDR) and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2020

The Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck announced that threat actors have accessed their account at the Oname.com domain registrar and hijacked one of its domain names. “The domain registration information has been amended at around 20:52 on June 1, 2020, and there is no impact on the customer’s assets at this time.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2024

A credential stuffing attack is a type of cyber attack where hackers use large sets of username and password combinations, typically obtained from previous data breaches, phishing campaigns, or info-stealer infections, to gain unauthorized access to user accounts on various online services.

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SecureList

MAY 28, 2024

But along with the advantages, such as saved time and resources, delegating non-core tasks creates new challenges in terms of information security. Having compromised the service provider’s infrastructure, intruders can obtain user accounts or certificates issued by the target organization, and thereby connect to their systems.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Researchers at AppOms discovered a vulnerability in Zoom Room as part of the HackerOne live hacking event H1-4420. The experts discovered the vulnerability in June 2023, they warned that an attacker can take over a Zoom Room’s service account and gain access to the victim’s organization’s tenant.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 11, 2021

In response, the non-profit has offered a glimpse into its work-in-progress “Accountability Framework,” designed to help relevant health care stakeholders take responsibility for keeping cyberspace secure by enforcing behavioral norms and also by understanding and rooting out the underlying causes when attacks do happen. “Too

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

According to state investigators, Dunkin' Donuts failed to respond to a series of successful cyber attacks that left tens of thousands of customer's online accounts vulnerable. Now the company is being forced to take certain information security measures and pay a $650,000 fine to the state of New York.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The threat actor was able to use these session tokens to hijack the legitimate Okta sessions of 5 customers, 3 of whom have shared their own response to this event.” ” The three customers who shared their own responses to the event are Cloudflare, 1Password , and BeyondTrust. ” continues the post.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The City of Philadelphia discloses a data breach that resulted from a cyber attack that took place on May 24 and that compromised City email accounts. The City of Philadelphia announced it is investigating a data breach after attackers that threat actors broke some of City email accounts containing personal and protected health information.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 8, 2021

The post CPDP 2021 – Moderator: Eduard Fosch-Villaronga ‘Artountability: Accountability, Ai And Art’ appeared first on Security Boulevard. Our sincere thanks to CPDP 2021 - Computers, Privacy & Data Protection Conference for publishing their well-crafted videos on the organization's YouTube channel.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The fabricated LinkedIn identities — which pair AI-generated profile photos with text lifted from legitimate accounts — are creating major headaches for corporate HR departments and for those managing invite-only LinkedIn groups. Another “swarm” of LinkedIn bot accounts flagged by Taylor’s group.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Companies must take this into account and consider extending employee training to also promote security and privacy habits among all family members, especially children. Companies can promote family online safety with family-focused materials, events, and outreach. Host virtual events? Do you have a corporate book club?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Cloud Security Concerns: As businesses increasingly migrate to the cloud, cloud security incidents are on the rise, with misconfigured cloud services accounting for 68% of reported incidents. Recent Security Events Recent cyber security events have highlighted the persistent and evolving nature of online threats.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2024

Brokewell malware supports “accessibility logging,” it records any device events such as touches, swipes, displayed information, text input, and opened applications. The experts explained that potentially all applications on the device are vulnerable to data compromise as Brokewell logs every event.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Security firm Sumo Logic disclosed a security breach after discovering the compromise of its AWS account compromised last week. The company disclosed a security breach after discovering that its AWS account was compromised last week. The company discovered the security breach on Friday, November 3, 2023.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2024

Attackers often exploit current events or emergency situations to elicit emotional responses and induce victims to act hastily without carefully evaluating the legitimacy of the communications. He is also the author of the book “La Gestione della Cyber Security nella Pubblica Amministrazione”.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 1, 2024

These are the Top 2023 Security Affairs cybersecurity stories … enjoy it. CYBERCRIMINALS LAUNCHED “LEAKSMAS” EVENT IN THE DARK WEB EXPOSING MASSIVE VOLUMES OF LEAKED PII AND COMPROMISED DATA Leaksmas: On Christmas Eve, multiple threat actors released substantial data leaks, Resecurity experts reported.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The advisory published by the vendor states that the exploitation of the vulnerability allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to create an account on an affected system with privilege level 15 access. The attacker can then use that account to gain control of the affected system.” ” states Cisco Talos.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

PuTTY.exe Rhysida actors have been observed creating Secure Shell (SSH) PuTTy connections for lateral movement. In one example, analysis of PowerShell console host history for a compromised user account revealed Rhysida actors leveraged PuTTy to remotely connect to systems via SSH [ T1021.004 ].

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Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2022

Security researchers from Horizon3.ai The tool allows monitoring activities of Active Directory and produces alerts and reporting for one or more desired Active Directory change events. The unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability was discovered by security researcher Naveen Sunkavally at Horizon3.ai

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 13, 2022

Enforce strong passwords and implement multi-factor authentication (MFA) — by educating users about using a unique password for each account and enforcing higher security for privileged accounts (administrators, root). Accounting for humans. •Educate your employees on threats and risks such as phishing and malware.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 11, 2021

The post CPDP 2021 – Moderator: Eduard Fosch-Villaronga ‘Artountability: Accountability, AI, And Art’ appeared first on Security Boulevard. Our sincere thanks to CPDP 2021 - Computers, Privacy & Data Protection Conference for publishing their well-crafted videos on the organization's YouTube channel.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2024

The ransomware identifies user accounts by viewing successful logins in Windows Event Viewer, it also uses a modified variant of the open-source PSnmap Tool. Cactus ransomware uses the SoftPerfect Network Scanner (netscan) to look for other targets on the network along with PowerShell commands to enumerate endpoints.

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Hot for Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

(CJH) is alerting more than 36,000 UPMC patients that some of their personal data may have been inappropriately accessed as the result of an information security breach at the company,” the notice reads. “This event did not occur at UPMC or affect the security of its electronic patient records or other computer systems.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The threat actor was able to use these session tokens to hijack the legitimate Okta sessions of 5 customers, 3 of whom have shared their own response to this event.” The three customers who shared their own responses to the event are Cloudflare, 1Password , and BeyondTrust. ” continues the update.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2021

The cyberattack temporarily blocked the customers’ access to their account information, the cooperative is working to restore the impacted system. We are thankful that no information has been accessed during this event.”. The system maintenance prevents members from accessing their accounts and any payment systems.”

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 30, 2023

Huge arrays of unstructured data utilized and modified by many users as well as the ever-growing complexity of attacks, lead to the fact that the usual means of protecting the perimeter of a corporate network no longer meet current information security requirements. What is Data-Centric Audit and Protection?

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2023

This ominous cyber-event sent shockwaves through the $26 trillion U.S. The ransomware disruption temporarily prevented bank employees from accessing their corporate email accounts and connecting to the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation to resolve large batches of U.S. trillion under management. Treasury market. Treasury trades.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

the Maine Attorney General’s Office, Bank of America noted that it cannot determine “with certainty what personal information was accessed” during the attack. .” On February 1, Bank of America started notifying 57028 customers impacted by the data breach.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The ransomware identifies user accounts by viewing successful logins in Windows Event Viewer, it also uses a modified variant of the open-source PSnmap Tool. Cactus ransomware uses the SoftPerfect Network Scanner (netscan) to look for other targets on the network along with PowerShell commands to enumerate endpoints.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Verizon’s 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) [1], an industry publication that analyzes cybersecurity incident and data breach event data from around the world, found that over 99% of all events fall into one of eight major categories: Patterns over time in cybersecurity incidents. What do these categories mean?”

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 5, 2021

Our thanks to Security BSides Athens for publishing their outstanding Security BSides Athens 2021 Conference videos on the groups' YouTube channel. The post Security BSides Athens 2021 – Talk 8: Leonidas Tsaousis’ ‘Click Here For Free TV!

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Cisco Security

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Automated Account Provisioning, by Adi Sankar. Integrating Meraki Scanning Data with Umbrella Security Events, by Christian Clasen. Integrating Security. As the needs of Black Hat evolved, so did the Cisco Secure Technologies in the NOC: Cisco SecureX : Extended Detection and Response actions / Automations.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2022

The company blocked about 200 accounts operated from Russia that were used to falsely report people for various violations, including hate speech, bullying, and inauthenticity, in an attempt to have them and their posts removed from the platform. . We disabled the account and event that same day.”

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